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The Girls in Ocean Engineering and Science (GOES) Institute brings a group of girls to WHOI during the summer before they begin sixth grade, as well as a teacher fellow…

Geophysicist, Maurice Ewing, stands on the deck of WHOI’s first research vessel, Atlantis, holding a mechanism to time the release of seismic equipment from the seafloor so that it could…

Morse Pond School students Meghan Ghelfi (foreground, left) and Elena Hyatt use an anemometer to measure wind velocity on WHOI’s Shore Lab beach this summer, with help from WHOI Administrative…

In 2007, John Kemp was lowered in a metal basket from the icebreaker Oden to try to retrieve an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Puma visible just beneath Kemp’s long metal pole. Kemp, who heads…

Hurricanes have left their mark on Cape Cod, and members of the Coastal Systems Group go to great lengths to find evidence of past storms in local ponds and marshes.…

This strange-looking creature is a siphonophore. Some are only about the size of a nickel, but others can stretch as much as 130 feet, making them among the longest animals…

In 1983, an early version of the deep-sea vehicle Alvin was lifted from its tender, R/V Lulu, onto the WHOI dock in front of the Bigelow Laboratory. More than 30 years…

Few research vessels have traveled as far or worked as long as Atlantis II, shown here undergoing remodeling in Boston to accommodate the launch and recovery of the deep-sea submersible…

Nearly 2,000 people visited the WHOI pier August 13 for the third Woods Hole Science Stroll. A big attraction was a tour of the WHOI-operated research vessel Atlantis and the…

Parking lots at WHOI are sometimes used for anything but cars. Engineers Andy Bowen (left) and Don Peters cordoned one off recently so they could test a newly patented tether—part…

Edmond Watson, a long-time researcher at WHOI, works with an electric current meter he helped develop aboard the research vessel Atlantis sometime around 1938. The original Atlantis, built when WHOI was established…

WHOI volunteer Anne-Marie Runfola explained a JetYak to visitors at the Woods Hole Science Stroll this summer. JetYak is an inexpensive, reliable vehicle that operates autonomously or remotely and can…

Senior engineering assistant Diana Wickman (right) talks with visitors to the WHOI pier at the recent Woods Hole Science Stroll. On the table in front of her is a yellow…

Researchers launch a buoy equipped with an acoustic Doppler current profiler from a research catamaran in the Mediterranean Sea. The buoy was designed by WHOI’s Upper Ocean Processes Group to…

This eerie twilight photo of the research vessel Neil Armstrong was taken earlier this month in waters off of Greenland by a new camera system called IceCam. It consists of…

The term necropsy is used to describe an autopsy performed on a deceased, non-human animal. WHOI’s necropsy facility allows scientists to study the anatomy, physiology, diet, and health of animals…

While the crew of R/V Neil Armstrong prepared a 2-kilometer (1.2-mile) mooring line for deployment southeast of Greenland recently, they were visited by a large pod of pilot whales. Like…

This series of photos taken by the WHOI deep-tow camera ANGUS in 1977 provided the first view of the unexpectedly diverse, abundant communities of life on a seafloor once thought…

Alfred Redfield, shown in his lab in 1955, joined the WHOI staff as senior biologist in 1931. He went on to serve as Associate Director from 1942 to 1956. Redfield’s…